Tishri (redirected from Tishrei)

Tish·ri  (tshr, -r)

n.

The first month of the year in the Jewish calendar. See Table at calendar.

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[Hebrew tirî, from Akkadian tartu, beginning, a month name, from urrû, to begin; see ry in Semitic roots.]

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Tishri [tɪʃˈriː]

n

(Non-Christian Religions / Judaism) (in the Jewish calendar) the seventh month of the year according to biblical reckoning and the first month of the civil year, usually falling within September and October

[from Hebrew]

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Tishri - the first month of the civil year; the seventh month of the ecclesiastical year in the Jewish calendar (in September and October) Feast of Booths, Feast of Tabernacles, Succos, Succoth, Sukkoth, Tabernacles - a major Jewish festival beginning on the eve of the 15th of Tishri and commemorating the shelter of the Israelites during their 40 years in the wilderness Hebrew calendar, Jewish calendar - (Judaism) the calendar used by the Jews; dates from 3761 BC (the assumed date of the Creation of the world); a lunar year of 354 days is adjusted to the solar year by periodic leap years Jewish calendar month - a month in the Jewish calendar